Even Google Japan has gotten in on the April Fool’s fun with “Google Magic Hand.”

Magic Hand is a nonexistent device that makes it so you don’t have to operate your mobile phone or iPad by hand anymore. By connecting your device to a crane-like hand that connects to a keyboard via USB, we’re not really sure where the joke was going. But it does make a glorious backscratcher, as seen in the video above.

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Gmail turns 10-years-old today. The popular mail service launched on April 1, 2004.

To help celebrate this milestone, Gmail released “Gmail Shelfie”, or the “shareable selfie.”

When custom themes launched back in 2012, we urged you to find “your perfect image and make Gmail your own.” And you did. Many of you rushed to take photos of yourselves to upload as your Gmail custom theme, which you started referring to as selfies.

Gmail Shelfie is built on the idea that you shouldn’t be selfish with your selfie. With just a few clicks, your mom, your aunt, or that girl you have a crush on can set your Shelfie as their Gmail theme so they can enjoy checking, reading, and writing emails while seeing your friendly face in the background.

6. Nest Total Temperature Control

Nest has teamed up with Virgin Airlines to release “total temperature control”, a way for individual airline passengers to choose what their air temperature is while they’re on board . With options like “Cancun Afternoon” and “Chicago Polar Vortex”, this has joke written all over it.

5. WazeDates

“WazeDates” uses the same crowdsourcing technology designed to help drivers around the world outsmart traffic, while creating a new space for people to meet and fall in love.

The video explains further that the app allows drivers to alert other drivers of single hotties on the road.

Sam Princecovers social media trends and breaking news for Heavy. He also writes for the South China Morning Post. He is a New York City-based actor and singer who tours internationally with a Four Seasons tribute band and has appeared on various television shows and Broadway. Email him at sam@heavy.com and find him on Twitter @thesamprince. April 1, 2014 7:12 am